So giving up meats for Lent, and hoping to lose weight with fruits and veggies, cheese and nuts has not been working out well for me.I did not have a clear 'diet' plan. Too many carbs. Protein powder in my juice makes me want to drink too much of it because it's just too tasty Having 1 oz of cheese or nuts..Too much of a tease. I will not have these items in my home for a very, very long time.My weight loss diets must be more clear-cut, Right now my food options are not well balanced at mealtime with the adequate servings of Carbs-Fat-Protein.

Well I finally made it to the health food store and got 2 boxes of Vital Gluten, nutritional yeast and made the vegan fried chicken I was talking about on the previous page. Well I seasoned the hell out of that wheat flour until it ended up tasting like popeye's chicken! I wet the gluten flour with chicken bouillon cubes in water, used liquid smoke, paprika, cayanne, onion powder, garlic powder , cumin, black pepper, soy sauce etc. I boiled the "chicken" nuggets in water with liquid smoke and soy sauce for about 20 minutes. Then I took it out and fried it with an egg dredge and New Orleans fish fry flour. The flavor of this "chicken" actually surprised me! I have a big bowl of it .

The pieces of "chicken" that crumbled at the bottom of the first boil pot were turned into mock ground beef, and browned in bbq sauce, diced onions and bell peppers to make a pot of chili with beans. So I have a HUGE pot of chili and a huge pot of fried chicken all with fake meat made out of vital gluten!

I am actually AMAZED at how much they taste like meat sort of when seasoned properly! I think I can be vegetarian for a spell with mock meat that tastes this good!

PS I think I will toss my chicken nuggets in bbq sauce and hot sauce to make them hot buffalo chicken nugget/wings. Then I will serve them with some blue cheese dip on the side. For the big bowl of chili, I will get some sour cream and melt some shredded cheese to sprinkle on top! So I will have delicious chili and buffalo chicken nuggets for the next week or 2 to warm my tummy... unless I put some in the freezer for later! I know it is not vegan bc of the egg, sour cream, cheese. But it is vegetarian!

Started Master Cleanse this morning 4/14/14. Feeling really good, except I miss Coffee .I will like to lose a few lbs, but this Cleanse is primarily to clean my Colon. Which when I think of it is the same thing, because it has been sluggish for a few months .Hope the 'hungries' doesn't overwhelm me later because I really want to sustain this for at least 10 days.

for lunch I took some of the mock ground beef that was browned in bbq sauce, onions, garlic and bell peppers. I put it on some buns with some cheese and ketchup under the broiler to make a mock sloppy joe/bbq beef sandwich. It was actually pretty decent too!

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